Body of woman found on Gulf Freeway downtown

Updated 12:47 am, Sunday, October 6, 2013

Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found on a downtown Houston freeway after she fell out of a vehicle, authorities said.

Investigators learned the woman, in her early 20s, was the passenger in a white Chevy Trailblazer traveling south in the 900 block of the Gulf Freeway near McKinney, said Houston Police Department Sgt. C.B. Nickerson.

Just before 8 p.m., the passenger door of the Trailblazer opened and the woman fell out of the vehicle onto the freeway where she was struck by another vehicle, Nickerson said.

Both the Trailblazer and the vehicle that struck the woman did not stop. Nickerson said investigators are still trying to determine if the driver of the Trailblazer, the woman's boyfriend, pushed her out of the SUV.